Creating recovery disc?

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Scythe

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Hi, I want to make a recovery disc for my laptop at uni. My laptop is ready to be imaged, it is 13.2GB currently hosted on a 120GB partition.

I have a 40GB external hard disk (USB) to back up onto, the original HD is 120GB. Some free imaging software only lets you image onto same size or bigger drives.

So, I'm after free imaging software I can use to create a disc which will allow me to store the image onto a HD which is smaller than the original HD (file based image or something), Can anyone help?

Hope I've managed to explain it clearly enough :p

Thanks
 
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If I understood correctly, you have 13.2GB used out of a total 120GB.

You could try and shrink the partition to bring it close to 13.2GB ( Might want to defrag first ).

Then your 1:1 image will be only around 13.2GB in size.

After you restore, you can grow the partition back to 120GB ( or whatever size the restored to drive is ).

I've done this successfully with a fresh Windows install. I wrote zeros to the entire drive before installing windows, then passed the resulting image through a compression program. This reduced the image filesize even further.

I used the user unfriendly Linux dd command.

No doubt, someone will be along to suggest a friendlier tool. :p
 
eXor said:
If I understood correctly, you have 13.2GB used out of a total 120GB.

You could try and shrink the partition to bring it close to 13.2GB ( Might want to defrag first ).

Then your 1:1 image will be only around 13.2GB in size.

After you restore, you can grow the partition back to 120GB ( or whatever size the restored to drive is ).

I've done this successfully with a fresh Windows install. I wrote zeros to the entire drive before installing windows, then passed the resulting image through a compression program. This reduced the image filesize even further.

I used the user unfriendly Linux dd command.

No doubt, someone will be along to suggest a friendlier tool. :p
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Correct. The 13.2 GB is stored on a 120GB partition. Ok, in the meanwhile I'll look into it :)
 
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